Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda/cs8409: Fix for Dell Cirrus audio jack detect

From: Steven Kendall

Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 21:27:28 EST


> We have retested the hardware using Ubuntu 26.04, and everything works as expected.
> The behaviour you describe where ALSA doesn’t detect plug/unplug until playback is
> expected on this hardware, due to the way the CS8409 works.
>
> As for ChromeOS Flex, do you have any instructions for us to try and install this to be able
> for us to test this? Is there a particular image or version we should use?
>

Apologies for the delay getting back to you on this; I got pulled away
to some other work. To test Chrome OS Flex on the device I recommend
using https://dl.google.com/chromeos-flex/images/latest.bin.zip (which
can also be reached from the Flex main site, albeit with one or two
more clicks than would be ideal). I've reproduced the issue on that
build: audio at first only works through speakers and headphone
plug/unplug is not detected. However, by closing the lid and opening
it again (once already logged in or as guest) it fixes the issue and
plug/unplug works as expected and audio can be heard over headphones.